PHILIPSBURG – The Philipsburg Heritage Days Committee announces the following winners from its Grand Parade Saturday.
*Best appearing bag pipes and drums band – John F. Nicholls Pipe and Drum, first place; Jaffa Highlanders, second
*Best appearing military band – Berlin Fife and Drum
*Best appearing senior drum and bugle corps – Keystone Regiment
*Best appearing junior/senior high school band – Curwensville Area Senior High School, first; Moshannon Valley High School, second
*Best appearing high school band – Curwensville Area Senior High School
*Best appearing junior baton corps – Glen Ritchey Country Firettes, first; The Liberettes, second
*Best appearing senior baton corps – Dream Catchers, first; Moshannon Valley YMCA Twirlers, second
*Best appearing oldest motorized vehicle – Philipsburg Kiwanis 1926 Hudson, first; Blair Michaels 1945 tractor, second
*Best appearing mounted horse corps – Valley Riders
*Best appearing and marching veterans group – Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter No. 974 Honor Guard
*Best appearing church float – Evangelical Baptist Church of Osceola Mills
*Best appearing children’s float – Cen-Clear Child Services Inc.
*Best appearing business float – Moshannon Valley YMCA Summer Youth Theatre
*Best appearing organization float – New Life Center
*Best float representing Philipsburg – Philipsburg-Osceola Lady Mounties Softball Team
*Best appearing ambulance – Mountain Top Fire Co. of Sandy Ridge
*Best appearing brush truck – Fox Township Fire Co., first; Glen Hope Fire Co., second
*Best appearing personnel carrier – Port Matilda Fire Police
*Best appearing aerial apparatus – Tyrone Fire Co.
*Best appearing tanker – Port Matilda Fire Co.
*Best appearing pumper tanker – Hyde Fire Co., first; Ramey Fire Co., second
*Best appearing engine, 1979 and older – Columbia Fire Co. of Osceola Mills
*Best appearing engine, 1990-99 – Mountain Top Fire Co.
*Best appearing engine, 2000-07 – Columbia Fire Co., first; Houtzdale Fire Co., second
*Oldest motorized fire apparatus – Hookies of Tyrone, 1967 Dodge brush truck
*Oldest non-motorized fire apparatus – Columbia Fire Co., 1889 chemical pump
*Longest distance traveled – Berlin Fife and Drum Corps